PIANO music by an extremely talented young musician opens Basingstoke Concert Club’s new season this weekend.

Kicking off the club’s 56th season on Saturday (October 9) is Cordelia Williams (pictured) who will play pieces by Beethoven, Schumann, Ravel and Chopin.

The daughter of a piano teacher, Williams gave her first public piano recital to celebrate her eighth birthday and spent seven years at Chethams School of Music in Manchester.

She continued having piano lessons in London while reading theology at Clare College, Cambridge, and graduated with a first this summer.

Williams is now studying as a postgraduate with Joan Havill at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

She has given recitals at Turner Sims Hall, Southampton, and at St George’s, Bristol.

Her BBC Young Musician 2006 Final performance of Saint-Saens’ Second Concerto with The Northern Sinfonia led to an invitation from the orchestra to return in 2008 for Shostakovich’s First Concerto with conductor Thomas Zehetmair.

A passionate chamber musician, Williams also held an Instrumental Award for Chamber Music throughout her time at Cambridge.

Tickets to see Williams at Trinity Methodist Church, in Sarum Hill, Basingstoke, are £15, or young people aged eight to 25 can attend for free with CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust.

To book call 01256 328589 or 01256 780785 and there may some available on the door.

More information is at basingstoke concertclub.org.uk.